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After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves
By Jill Kastner (illustrator) and Scott R. Sanders
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Paperback:

9780689819070 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, March 1, 1998), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves

School and Library:

9780027782707 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1989, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.

Reinforced:

9780606131551 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, March 1, 1998), cover price $13.53 | About this edition: After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves

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Product Description: Scott Russell Sanders encourages us to understand history as he does, by imagining past lives. He was fascinated by a fragment of information that he found in a nineteenth-century record book, about the first pioneer to own sheep in Randolph Township, Portage County, Ohio...read more
By Helen Cogancherry (illustrator)
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Hardcover:

9781590984215 | Wooster Book Co, January 1, 2009, cover price $18.00 | also contains Warm As Wool, Warm As Wool | About this edition: Scott Russell Sanders encourages us to understand history as he does, by imagining past lives.

Paperback:

9780689822421 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, November 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm

School and Library:

9780027781397 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm

Reinforced:

9780606158770 | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $14.81 | also contains Warm As Wool | About this edition: When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm

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Product Description: There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek. That's what Lizzie and Michael call the stream that runs behind their house. Come pan for gold, hunt for fossils, find and arrowhead in the mud or a crayfish under a stone. Watch whirligig beetles and water striders skate across the water, teasing the fish below, and count the turtles sunning themselves on moss-covered logs...read more
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Hardcover:

9780792270973 | Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Two children find fossils, salamanders, dragonflies, frogs, deer tracks, and many other 'treasures' when they visit the creek near their home

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9780792264927 | Reprint edition (Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, May 1, 2002), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Two children, Michael and Lizzie, find fossils, salamanders, dragonflies, frogs, deer tracks, and many other 'treasures' when they visit the creek near their home.
9780792264927 | Reprint edition (Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, May 1, 2002), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Two children, Michael and Lizzie, find fossils, salamanders, dragonflies, frogs, deer tracks, and many other 'treasures' when they visit the creek near their home.

Reinforced:

9780606242479 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.16 | About this edition: There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek.

Prebinding:

9781439512265 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek.

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Product Description: An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe--"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything...read more
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9780865476936 | North Point Pr, February 21, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Recounts the author's four-year-old experience of a surge of power and wonder in the arms of his father during a thunderstorm and his subsequent efforts to re-experience the same feeling, an endeavor marked by such elements as his attraction to specific biblical cadences, his opposition to the Vietnam War, and his decision to leave school.

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9780865477346 | North Point Pr, March 6, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe--"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything.

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Product Description: "After spending a few hours in the pages of Invisible Presence, I can see once more beyond the familiar to the miraculous." -- Scott Russell Sanders, from the forewordIn this surprising collection of photographs, acclaimed photographer Darryl D...read more
By Darryl L. Jones (photographer) and Scott R. Sanders (foreword by)
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Hardcover:

9780253347534 | Quarry Books, July 31, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "After spending a few hours in the pages of Invisible Presence, I can see once more beyond the familiar to the miraculous.

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Product Description: Environmental writer, Scott Russell Sanders, and nature photographer, Rich Clark, take the reader on a systematic tour of natural and rural Indiana. All 26 of Indiana's landscape provinces are described in separate chapters, illustrated with 240 exhibit-format color photographs and keyed to 28 color maps...read more
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Hardcover:

9780763184643 | Browntrout Pub, July 4, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Environmental writer, Scott Russell Sanders, and nature photographer, Rich Clark, take the reader on a systematic tour of natural and rural Indiana.

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Product Description: The time is 1813, during America's last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens...read more
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Hardcover:

9780253344144 | Indiana Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The time is 1813, during America's last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement.
9780027782301 | Atheneum, September 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Eli Jackson and a thirty-one-year-old lawyer in early-nineteenth-century Ohio set out to find a murderer who might be a 'Bigfoot.

Paperback:

9780253216885 | Indiana Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The time is 1813, during America's last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement.

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Product Description: The present rate of devastation of our natural world and of healthy lives is unprecedented, and accelerating. The work of conserving land, species, and ways of life is more urgent and vital than ever before. What does it mean to truly conserve land and community life in this era? And why is this so vitally important if we are to heal the divisions in our culture and ourselves, change our patterns of consumption, and reverse the fate of our earth?In three powerful essays, three influential writers and thinkers--Scott Russell Sanders, Peter Forbes and Kathleen Dean Moore--explore these questions, giving us new insights about the promise of land conservation in our present world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Forbes (contributor), Kathleen Dean Moore (contributor), Will Rogers (foreword by), Scott R. Sanders (contributor) and Helen Whybrow (editor)
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9780967280691 | Trust of Public Land, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The present rate of devastation of our natural world and of healthy lives is unprecedented, and accelerating.

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Product Description: There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek. That's what Lizzie and Michael call the stream that runs behind their house. Come pan for gold, hunt for fossils, find and arrowhead in the mud or a crayfish under a stone. Watch whirligig beetles and water striders skate across the water, teasing the fish below, and count the turtles sunning themselves on moss-covered logs...read more
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Prebinding:

9780613977258 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek.

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Product Description: "Good places are shaped by the gifts of nature and by the labor and love of many people over generations. The city of Bloomington, tucked away in the forested hills of southern Indiana, is one such place...read more
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Hardcover:

9780253340566 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "Good places are shaped by the gifts of nature and by the labor and love of many people over generations.

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After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.
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Paperback:

9780689840012 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, January 1, 2001), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.

School and Library:

9780689804700 | Atheneum, June 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life

Reinforced:

9780606208543, titled "Place Called Freedom" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $13.70 | About this edition: After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.

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Product Description: Scott Russell Sanders reveals how the pressure of the sacred breaks through the surfaces of ordinary life-a life devoted to grown-up children and aging parents, the craft of writing, and the natural world. Whether writing to his daughter and his son as each prepares to get married, or describing an encounter with a red-tailed hawk in whose form he glimpses his dead father, or praising the disciplines of writing and carpentry and teaching, Sanders registers, in finely tuned prose, the force of spirit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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Hardcover:

9780807062968 | Beacon Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: "Sanders writes with the kindness of E.

Paperback:

9780807062975 | Beacon Pr, September 18, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Scott Russell Sanders reveals how the pressure of the sacred breaks through the surfaces of ordinary life-a life devoted to grown-up children and aging parents, the craft of writing, and the natural world.

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After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves
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Reinforced:

9780606219112 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $13.97 | About this edition: After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves

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Suggests reasons to face the future with confidence, despite the environmental problems that face the world
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Hardcover:

9780807063248 | Beacon Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Suggests reasons to face the future with confidence, despite the environmental problems that face the world

Paperback:

9780807064252 | Beacon Pr, September 15, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Suggests reasons to face the future with confidence, despite the environmental problems that face the world

Miscellaneous:

9780807063224 | Beacon Pr, November 28, 2000, cover price $23.00

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The author recounts how he became a writer, and describes how incidents in his life have affected his beliefs and his work. (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9781571312297 | Milkweed Editions, November 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author recounts how he became a writer, and describes how incidents in his life have affected his beliefs and his work.

Paperback:

9781571312303 | Milkweed Editions, November 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The author recounts how he became a writer, and describes how incidents in his life have affected his beliefs and his work.

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Set in 1815, a historical novel captures the journey of one family as they set sail down the dangerous Ohio River in the hopes of beginning a new life in the future home downstream. Reprint. H. SLJ.
By Helen Cogancherry (illustrator) and Scott R. Sanders
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Paperback:

9780689830495 | Aladdin Paperbacks, December 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In 1815, the McClures sail their flatboat from Pittsburgh down the Ohio River and settle in what would later become Indiana

School and Library:

9780027781373 | Atheneum, April 1, 1995, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In 1815, the McClures sail their flatboat from Pittsburgh down the Ohio River and settle in what would later become Indiana

Reinforced:

9780606173162 | Demco Media, September 1, 1999, cover price $13.97 | About this edition: In 1815, the McClures sail their flatboat from Pittsburgh down the Ohio River and settle in what would later become Indiana

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Amazon.com Review: Exile is a romantic notion for many American writers; those who don't make it to Paris or Tokyo gravitate to New York or Los Angeles, as if pulled by some sort of undertow to the country's edge. Scott Russell Sanders spent some time abroad, but he found that he answered less to the lure of foreign soil than the gentle tug of his native Midwest...read more
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Hardcover:

9780253209986 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price N/A
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9780253329417 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: ".

Paperback:

9780253211439 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, August 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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During a long walk through the forest with his father, a young boy discovers the wonders of nature as he learns about different kinds of trees and their special characteristics, in a guide that includes detailed descriptions to help young readers identify various tree species.
By Robert Hynes (illustrator) and Scott R. Sanders
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Hardcover:

9780792241409 | Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, April 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: As a boy and his father walk in the woods near their home, they share what they know about the bark, leaves, and fruit of the different species they see

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Product Description: This imaginative excursion into the future -- where humanity has abandoned the outdoors for a network of cities sealed against all of nature -- shows us the perils of separating ourselves from the environment.
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Hardcover:

9780253329561 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1996), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This imaginative excursion into the future -- where humanity has abandoned the outdoors for a network of cities sealed against all of nature -- shows us the perils of separating ourselves from the environment.

Paperback:

9780253210210 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This imaginative excursion into the future -- where humanity has abandoned the outdoors for a network of cities sealed against all of nature -- shows us the perils of separating ourselves from the environment.
9780812553802 | Tor Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A small group of malcontents in Oregon City are determined to escape the enclosed world which provides for all of their needs, and explore the wild earth beyond their dome

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Product Description: In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home region is the grounding for global knowledge.
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Hardcover:

9780807063408 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Drawing on his own experiences, the author presents essays discussing the necessity of making a commitment to one place in a society that values rootlessness

Paperback:

9780807063415 | Reissue edition (Beacon Pr, April 1, 1994), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home region is the grounding for global knowledge.

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Children on the nineteenth-century American frontier wait expectantly for the arrival of the singing, story-telling Merchant Meeks, bringing with him not only a bulging sack of spices, cloth, pots, and pans, but news of the world.
By Helen Cogancherry (illustrator) and Scott R. Sanders
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School and Library:

9780027781458 | Atheneum, September 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Goodwin family's pioneer home is visited by the traveling peddler who brings wondrous things and amazing tales from far away

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Essays deal with the terror of munitions, country life, owls, clouds, mountains, rocks, tools, men and women, violence, and jury duty
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Hardcover:

9780820309033 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss changing attitudes towards war and violence, the differences between urban and rural life, family traditions, and the study of nature

Paperback:

9780807063439 | Reissue edition (Beacon Pr, June 1, 1993), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays deal with the terror of munitions, country life, owls, clouds, mountains, rocks, tools, men and women, violence, and jury duty

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Essays examine relationships within families, communities, and regions, and reflect on the mystery of the universe (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9780807063309 | Beacon Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Essays examine relationships within families, communities, and regions, and reflect on the mystery of the universe

Paperback:

9780807063316 | Reissue edition (Beacon Pr, November 1, 1992), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Essays examine relationships within families, communities, and regions, and reflect on the mystery of the universe

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A tribute to the limestone quarries of southern Indiana and the men who worked in them includes an examination of the geological past of the region
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Paperback:

9780807063354 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, October 29, 1991), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A tribute to the limestone quarries of southern Indiana and the men who worked in them includes an examination of the geological past of the region

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Paperback:

9780812553826 | Tor Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $3.95

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